Behind the Monastery Wall
15/01/1928
The old nunnery owns the best lands. Nuns rent out the land to local rich men, and exploiting peasants they have a wealthy life. The peasants live in misery. Especially, the family of the peasant named Levin. He is forced to give away his last horse, his son Andrii is imprisoned, his daughter Nastia becomes a maid of a rich landlord. Trying to prevent the master’s harassment, Nastia escapes and gets to the nunnery. She can see the other life of the nuns who manufacture false relics, drink alcohol and kill children. Nastia ends up in the basement for resisting one of the “spiritual pastors.” Meanwhile, her brother Andrii escapes from prison. He stirs up a rebellion and saves his sister. The film is lost.
Movie Information
Nina Li
as Nastya Levina
Matviy Lyarov
as Nedzelnitskiy
Mykola Kuchynskyi
as Priest
A. Ostashevsky
as Bishop Straton
Morshchikova
as Mother hegumeness
L. Nordt-Lundina
as Manefa
Anastasia Suvorina
as Old nun
Arseni Kuts
as Andrey Levin, Nastya's brother
Borys Bezhin
as Monk
K. Rudakov
as Handicap
A. Belov
as Fat monk
Anna Obukhovich
as Klanya
